Genes Reunited - combines genealogy with internet social-networking. Members become ‘cyber detectives', building their family tree by posting it on the site and investigating which ancestors they share with other members. One new name is added to the site every single second.

Helen's Page of New Zealand history - Contains a wide variety of primary source material relating mainly to mid to lower North Island (including Wellington). Includes electoral rolls and directories, shipping / passenger lists, church records, BDM and cemetery records, school lists, military records and a wide variety of other goodies.

New Zealand GenWeb - The New ZealandGenWeb Project hosts the New ZealandGenWeb regional projects and is one of the participating sites of the WorldGenWeb Project. The 'Resources' page covers everything from directories and civil registers, to libraries, archives and historical societies.

New Zealand Society of Genealogists homepage - Starting point for researching family history. includes key resources such as research guides and information on courses. The 'Resources' section also contains good descriptions of the many different types of resources available to the genealogist.

New Zealand Yesteryears - Provides information of interest to genealogists, with an emphasis on Southland. Includes shipping information, images, archives, a timeline of NZ history, recommended NZ links, and a glossary of Maori names.

Otago Nominal Index - An index to names in documents held by the Hocken Collections. The index holds nearly 250,000 records from electoral rolls, street directories, and Police gazettes for Otago & Southland.

Papers Past - National Library of New Zealand's digitised collection of newspapers.

Pearl's Pad - Includes genealogical and general interest historical records, particularly for the area from Coromandel to the Bay of Islands (including Auckland), but also some New Zealand-wide resources, newspaper and other indexes, shipping lists, school rolls, 19th century native land tenure and NZ Army records and much more.

Shadows of Time - Contains a range of useful indexes including lists of mayors, university graduates and early settlers.

The 1901 Census for England & Wales - This website contains census images and transcriptions from the 1901 Census of England and Wales. It allows visitors to search the census in a variety of ways, though payment is required to access the full records.

Wellington City Council Archives - most of the holdings of Wellington City Archives can be browsed on line. Holdings include local authority records for Wellington city dating back to 1842, and the archives of other Wellington organisations ranging from Wellington Harbour Board to Tawa Community Theatre. There is also a module which allows searching of the content of Wellington rate books from 1863-65.

Births, Deaths and Marriages

Births, Deaths and Marriages Historical Records - The Births, Deaths and Marriages registry (BDM) registers all births, deaths and marriages which take place in New Zealand. The database provides the records of: Births that occurred at least 100 years ago; Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago; Marriages and eventually Civil Unions that occurred 80 years ago; Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.

Marriages database - Undertaken by Otago University. Enables searching of marriage index records for a second spouse by using year and folio number, and from 1840-1862 by name. Māori data spans 1904-1959.

Varcoe's New Zealand Marriages Index - Database of New Zealand marriage records, 1840-62. Designed to be used in conjunction with the microfiche Marriages Indexes published by the New Zealand Registrar-General's Office.

New Zealand Armed Forces Memorial Project - Project to photograph and collect a pictorial record of New Zealand war graves and memorials both overseas and in New Zealand and to record the stories of military personnel, whether they lost their lives or returned home. Site has links to Commonwealth War Graves Commission and numerous military sites.

Māori Resources - Introduction to tracing whakapapa, significant tribal resources held in Manukau Libraries, a map showing iwi and waka, and links to a selection of sites with Maori content. Available in Māori and English.

Whakapapa - An introductory resource into researching Māori genealogy. Includes location of items in the University of Auckland Library and an iwi map.

Whakapapa Club - A site containing useful information and forums relating to Whakapapa.

New Zealand Bound - Dedicated to identifying genealogical resources to assist in locating which New Zealand bound ship an immigrant ancestor was aboard. Provides passenger lists and a list of the main ports.

Immigrant Groups

Chinese: Chinese in New Zealand - A site which reflects Steven Young's interest in the Chinese community in New Zealand, and particularly in Wellington. Includes his published articles, also the transcript of a speech by Dr James Ng, 'Chinese Settlement in New Zealand - Past, Present and Future'; and proceedings of 'Chinese in Australasia and the Pacific: Old and New Migrations and Cultural Change', Conference for the Study of Overseas Chinese, University of Otago, 20-21 November 1998. Also provides family histories, and a section on the Government's formal apology on 12 February 2002 to those who were required to pay a poll tax before entering New Zealand, and to their descendents and families.

Irish: New Zealand-Ireland Connection - Established to highlight the historical and contemporary connections between New Zealand and Ireland. In addition to a brief history of Irish emigration, it has a bibliography; details of New Zealand connections in Ireland; past and contemporary Irish connections in New Zealand; a list of Irish migrants; and links to relevant sites.

Polish: The Invited by Krystyna Skwarko. The story of a Polish woman who was deeply involved with the education of the young Polish refugees when they were first gathered together in Southern Russia and the old Persian capital of Isfahan during the early part of the Second World War. She then accompanied them in 1944 on the long journey to a permanent home in New Zealand where she became a teacher and guide at the Polish Children's Camp in Pahiatua. Site hosted by the Consulate of the Republic of Poland, Auckland.

Scots: 'Going Abroad' - Companion web page to John MacGibbon's book which looks at early Scottish settlers in Otago and Southland. Includes, 'Passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers, 1848-1851': A database of all the early passengers, corrected and expanded from lists published in 1898 by Dr Hocken. This contains quite a bit of genealogical information as well as names.

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